Slay the Spire 2 Update Just Removed Doormaker from the Game

The latest beta branch update for Slay the Spire 2 completely removes Doormaker, the controversial boss that became a major source of player frustration ever since its rework. Mega Crit’s first major update for the sequel to its genre-defining roguelike deckbuilder introduced sweeping balance changes, moving the beta branch adjustments into the main build. This update generally increased Slay the Spire 2‘s difficulty curve in higher Ascension tiers while also nerfing “infinite” builds.

Complaints against Doormaker formed the center of Slay the Spire 2‘s second review bombing. Players criticized the reworked Act 3 boss for shutting down too many deck archetypes at once, as it cycles through three debuffs that can prevent card draw, remove cards after they are played, or drain energy from players. Although the boss was oppressive, Mega Crit noted that Doormaker was “slightly weaker than the other Act 3 bosses both in kill rate and damage dealt.” However, the main criticism was how these mechanics restricted builds and made the game less fun.

Slay the Spire 2 Gets New Update for April 2026

Slay the Spire 2 receives a brand-new update in April 2026, introducing fresh additions and changes to the roguelike deck-building game.

Beta patch v0.105.0 removes Doormaker from Slay the Spire 2 and replaces it with a new Act 3 boss named Aeonglass. In the patch notes, Mega Crit noted that Doormaker had “interesting micro decisions in the fight” but that he was “over the complexity threshold of what we want and had lingering issues.” As a result, the devs decided to scrap the boss fight for now and start over fresh. Doormaker will remain in the game’s main build until Mega Crit decides whether to move the beta changes into the live version.

The first impression of Aeonglass is that it’s a more straightforward boss fight compared to the mechanically intensive Doormaker. Without giving away the full encounter, the floating hourglass punishes decks that rely on playing too many cards. However, characters that can exhaust, discard, transform, or take advantage of status cards like Defect’s Flak Cannon build will have a much easier time dealing with Aeonglass’ central gimmick.

The beta update also adds the teased Bestiary feature, giving players an in-game way to review information on the enemies they encountered while ascending the Spire. Aside from the new boss, the patch also includes balance changes, animations and audio for certain cards, new background music for two bosses, and tons of bugfixes, including correcting an infamous bug that breaks multiplayer in Slay the Spire 2.

As always, players are free to join the optional beta branch in Slay the Spire 2 to help test out these changes and provide feedback. To reiterate, the game is in an experimental early access state, so radical changes like removing a boss or overhauling card effects are part of Mega Crit’s process to figure out what works. For players who want bragging rights, now is the best time to beat Doormaker in Slay the Spire 2‘s main build before the controversial boss disappears for good.

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Slay the Spire 2 Beta v0.105.0 Patch Notes

The following changelog contains spoilers for the Beta v0.105.0 update

CONTENT & BALANCE:

General:

The Bestiary is now available in the Compendium

Silent:

Nerfed Blade of Ink card: Inky enchantment damage decreased from +2 -> +1

Regent:

Slightly reworked Sword Sage card:
- Old: Sword Sage – Power – Cost 2(1) – Rare – “Sovereign Blade now hits an additional time.”
- New: Sword Sage – Power – Cost 2(1) – Rare – “Sovereign Blade gains Replay 1.”
- Among other things, this means that Sword Sage card now has synergy with Parry card
Nerfed Bulwark card: Block decreased from 13(16) -> 12(15)
Buffed Crescent Spear card: base damage increased from 6 -> 8
Nerfed Patter card: Block gain decreased from 9(11) -> 8(10)
Buffed Royalties card: Gold Gain from 30(35) -> 30(40)

Defect:

Buffed Infused Core relic: now also gains “Lighting Orbs deal 1 additional damage.”
Buffed Hyperbeam: damage increased from 26(34) -> 28(36)
Buffed Shatter card: now Evokes all of your Orbs twice
Buffed Tesla Coil+ card: damage decreased from 6 -> 4, but Lightning Triggers increased from once -> twice
Buffed Uproar card: damage increased from 5(7) -> 6(8)

Colorless Cards:

Buffed Gold Axe card: in multiplayer, now deals damage equal to the number of cards played by ALL players, not just cards played by its owner

Enemies:

Reworked Doormaker to a new boss, Aeonglass
Changed Fossil Stalker: in multiplayer, now gains a set amount of Strength if it hits any player, instead of gaining Strength for each player hit
Changed Haunted Ship: now applies 3 Weak on Turn 1 instead of applying Weak when it attacks
Buffed Soul Fysh: Scream move damage increased from 11(12) -> 13(15)

Ancients:

Reworked Tezcatara’s Pumpkin Candle relic
- Old: “Gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes at the start of Act 3.”
- New: “Gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes after 5 combats. Can be Kindled at rest sites.”
Added new Neow relics:
- Kaleidoscope (temp name) – “Upon pickup, gain 2 card rewards with cards from other characters.”
- Fishing Rod – “Every 3 normal combats, Upgrade a random card in your Deck.”
- Silken Tress – “Enchant all cards in the first card reward with Glam.”
Moved Tezcatara’s Seal of Gold relic to option 3 so that it is in the same pool as Pumpkin Candle

Events:

Something special now happens if you have multiple Lantern Key cards (doesn’t apply to multiplayer)

ART:

Added art for Friendship Epoch
Added new power art for Smoggy
Added multi-hit animation for Corpse Slug
Added unstun animation for Rock Bowlbug
Tweaked Vantom explosion to look right on shrunken Vantom
Added a phobia mode alternate portrait for the Zen Weaver event

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:

Limited the total number of cards rendered when playing the Clone animation at a rest site to 15
Added translation issue dropdown option to the in-game feedback form
Outline darkness of continue button now matches the next dialogue arrow
Adjusted Gremlin Mercenary combat enemy hitboxes, speech bubble, and intent positions
Skulking Colony‘s health bar now changes color to indicate that it cannot take any more damage this turn
When hovering over stale dialogues at Ancients, all of the dialogues will become opaque instead of just the one currently being hovered over
Added a more informative error popup for Steam BadCert error in multiplayer
If you move a current_run.save with a modded character in it back to unmodded, you get an error instead of a black screen

WRITING:

Reworded Axebot death message to reflect that there is only 1 of them now
Added more translated text for various languages
Fixed translation errors in:
- German
- Latin American Spanish
- Castilian Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Japanese
- Polish
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Thai
- Turkish

AUDIO:

Added Soul Fysh background music
Added Kaiser Crab background music
Added Kaiser Crab SFX
Added hyper beam SFX

BUG FIXES:

General:

Fixed save files being lost or corrupted after a PC crash, blue screen, or power outage
Fixed black screen softlock when Steam would disconnect during room transitions
Fixed the Sealed Deck modifier not being affected by the multi-character card modifiers
Night Terrors modifier can no longer kill you
The Perfect badge is no longer awarded if you abandon run at a boss
Fixed being unable to navigate off of top bar in shop room
Fixed being unable to controller navigate through rest site options when player has 2 rows of relics
Fixed controller navigation in shop if you buy out all relics and colorless cards
The game no longer rapidly switches between “Controller Detected” and “Mouse Detected” when playing with a controller
Fixed being able to start a single player run via controller while the Ascension tutorial was open
Fixed potion hovertip not appearing if you press “b” in the potion popup screen
Fixed errors in input settings for new keybindings added after saving
Fixed rare problem where feedback screen is stuck open on game launch
Fixed rare softlock when playing Compact with status cards in hand
Fixed softlock after the popup about shuffling in the tutorial
Fixed Steam cloud sync errors when syncing many run history files
Fixed duplicate files appearing in run history after Steam cloud sync
Restored the default rendering backend to D3D12 for Intel 620 GPUs
Fixed audio staying muted after pressing volume keys or alt-tabbing on Linux
Fixed crash on Linux when ICU libraries are unavailable

Ironclad:

To avoid softlocking after setting up an infinite loop (i.e. Hellraiser + 2 Pommel Strike cards), Hellraiser will only play 9 cards per turn if all enemies have infinite HP
- Hellraiser card now properly plays cards containing “Strike” against enemies with infinite HP

Silent:

Fixed Fan of Knives card VFX not playing

Regent:

Fixed not being able to select cards with controller when you choose all the cards in your hand via GUARDS!!! card

Necrobinder:

Fixed Fetch card not glowing gold if it is drawn by Gambling Chip relic
Fixed Enfeebling Touch power causing Ceremonial Beast to gain Strength after you stun it

Colorless Cards:

Fixed VFX sometimes failing to appear during Rolling Boulder power effect

Potions & Relics:

Players are now disallowed from throwing the Foul Potion if the Merchant inventory is open
Using Foul Potion on the Merchant no longer freezes the game on controller
Bookmark relic is now able to properly apply its cost-reduction effect to a card that has been retained by a “Retain your Hand” effect like Equilibrium card
Fixed Beetle Juice potion causing Vantom‘s tail to become visibly cut off
If the player has The Boot relic and deals Skulking Colony 1-4 damage, they now properly take 5 damage

Ancients:

Fixed issue where the top of the next dialogue bubble was slightly visible before it would animate in at Ancients
Fixed being able to navigate back to Neow‘s blessing options while looking at the Card Library
Fixed card inspection button blocking “accept” hotkey when looking at the Pandora’s Box relic card view screen
Fixed issue where playing Wish card via controller would immediately select a card in the grid on the same button press

Enemies:

Fixed Kaiser Crab appearing if you load into an already completed boss room
Recentered Axebot in fight so it looks like there is supposed to be only one of them
Fixed a softlock that occurred if the player set up an infinite against Skulking Colony

Multiplayer:

Fixed player names with brackets (e.g. clan tags like ) causing errors in multiplayer
Fixed state divergence related to Mad Science, Juggling, and mixed combat speeds
Fixed Strangle power proccing off of other player’s card plays
Fixed occasional black screen when loading into a saved multiplayer combat
Fixed occasional state divergence caused by Stampede + Headbutt cards
Other players’ HP bars no longer go offscreen when resizing the window while in settings
Disallow War Historian Repy duplicate Lantern Key card bonus if you are in multiplayer